Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pipes is a registered Democrat, who voted for Humphrey in 1968 and for every Democratic presidential candidate before him. He says he would have voted for any candidate the Democrats put up, except McGovern...
OTHER PROFESSORS ARE MORE silent. For instance, Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government and another registered Democrat, says simply, "I am not voting for McGovern." Asked why, Ulam says the questions are too complicated and grumbles something about foreign policy...
Another registered Democrat, Robert Scalapino, professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley and a White House defense adviser, concurs with his fellow converts. "I regard McGovern as an honorable man." Scalapino admits, "but he's the most incredibly naive man to run for the presidency in the 20th century...
Traditionally, Texas has been Democratic. But a Democrat in Texas can be anyone from liberal state representative Francis "Sissy" Farenthold, runner-up to Tom Eagleton in the balloting for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination, to former governor John Connally, Nixon's former Secretary of the Treasury who now heads Democrats for Nixon. "Conservative" is the key word in Texas politics; it is a land of "conservative" Democrats...
...next event on McGovern's schedule was a luncheon with Italian-American labor and political leaders in Belleville, New Jersey. About 150 leaders showed up and again McGovern delivered a short campaign speech stressing the importance of loyalty to the Democratic Party. McGovern could have easily met more Italian Americans had he gone to a subway stop in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and givenout literature in the morning. Yet his point was not really to try and convince the Italian leaders to support him; rather he wanted the great mass of Italians and white ethnics who watch the 6 o' clock news...